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WORLDWIDE ADVANCES IN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT - 1999 REPORT

 

Annex B

 Advanced projects of LILW repository sites 
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Country

'98 output TWh (nimber of units)

Site name

Concept

Capacity

Commissioned

Australia

 

Billa Kalina

ENSF

 

1999

Belgium

4 389 (7)

 

ENSF/GR

60 000 m3 to 100 000 m3

2004

Bulgaria

1 549 (6)

Novi Han

ENSF

 

1999

Canada

6 750 (14)

IRUS (prototype)

ENSF

2 000 m3

1999

China

1 346 (3)

Guangdong (Beilong) project

Northwest repository project

ENSF

 

ENSF

80 000 m3 to

240 000 m3

200 000 m3

 

Cyprus

 

Ari Farm

SNSF

   

Egypt

 

Inshas

ENSF

 

2000

Germany

14 520 (20)

Konrad

GR

650 000 m3

2001

Hungary

1 312 (4)

 

ENSF

MC

40 000 m3

40 000 m3

 

Mexico

883 (2)

Laguna Verde

ENSF

   

Norway

 

Himdalen

ENSF

10,000 drums

2001

Peru

 

RASCO

ENSF

   

Romania

490 (1)

Cernavoda

ENSF

 

2002

Slovak Rep

1 139 (5)

Mochovce

ENSF

47 520 m3

 

South Korea

8 519 (15)

 

 

20 000 m3

2008

Switzerland

2 437 (5)

The Wellenberg project (Nidwalden canton ) *

MC

200 000 m3

2007*

UK

9 114 (35)

Site to be defined

     
USA 67 370 (104)

Ward Valley, California Boyd Country, Nebraska

Wake Country, North California

Frakin Ranch, Texas

ENSF

ENSF

ENSF

ENSF

   
       

ENSF: Engineered near surface facility

SNSF: Simple near surface facility

S/ENSF: SNSF + ENSF

MC: Mined cavity

GR: Geological repository

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